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Red painted and carpeted gallery displaying fashion. Westwood / Kawakubo
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Westwood / Kawakubo review: fashion that promotes fearless individualism

It is a stunning pairing, bringing together two fiercely individual designers, but the Westwood / Kawakubo blockbuster exhibition suffers from…

Gallery view with woman in black with centre installation using polarising filters. Olafur Eliasson
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Olafur Eliasson's Presence review: art that physically reboots us

Always wanted to touch a rainbow? Or to see a cloud being born? Olafur Eliasson’s Brisbane exhibition Presence gives you…

Man in wetsuit with surfboard on beach with sculpture. SWELL Sculpture Festival
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Best opportunities, grants and awards for creatives: 8-14 December 2025

The Bald Archy Prize spreads its wings, major commissions and funding opportunities for 2026, and more.

Stories You Wear: Magpie Goose at Museum of Brisbane 2025. Image: Red Handed Productions.
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Stories You Wear: Magpie Goose review, Museum of Brisbane

The First Nations’ wearable art exhibition, Magpie Goose, weaves themes of community, culture and Country.

Hyperreal sculpture in gallery setting of man and woman at beach. Ron Mueck
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Ron Mueck: Encounter review: empathy in difficult times

Moving from the intimate to the monumental, the Art Gallery of NSW steps into Ron Mueck’s world and it is…

colour swatches. Pantone
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Pantone’s colour of the year is under attack – and rightly so

Pantone's newly announced 'trending colour for 2026' is as bland as you can get and emblematic of our increasingly grey…

Room with walls painted in red white and black stripes and installation of Aboriginal art sculptures. Tony Albert's Indigenous Triennial
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After the Rain: 5th National Indigenous Art Triennial review – Tony Albert setting wrongs right

This Triennial by Tony Albert is all heart, but it also asks the big questions.

view of gallery with blue wall and bright coloured painting in comic style. Kaylene Whiskey
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Kaylene Whiskey review: offering super-powered conversations

Move over Dolly and Cher. Kaylene Whiskey’s survey at the National Portrait Gallery is more layered than you think.

A formal portrait of two men and an elderly woman. French Order of Arts and Letters
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Australian creatives awarded French Order of Arts and Letters

Dr Elizabeth Cameron Dalman AM and Tony Albert join the French Order of Knighthood.

Fremantle Biennale 2025: a large smokey empty room with 7 large black square shaped speakers suspended from the room while three young people are sitting on the floor looking at them.
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5 powerful highlights from this year’s Fremantle Biennale

The 2025 Fremantle Biennale brought to life over 25 ambitious, site-responsive artworks. Here are the five that stood out from…

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